Torsten Nessel

Torsten Nessel (23 September 1886-1 June 1958) was one of the founders of the Nazi Party.

Biography
Torsten Nessel was from Pforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, and he was from a well-to-do Catholic family. Nessel became the owner of an umbrella factory, but he took a role in politics after World War I, when he was enraged by the defeat of the German Empire due to what he saw as a conspiracy by Jews, communists, and unions against Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Nessel missed the days of a united German Empire, so he joined the Nazi Party so that he could advocate German nationalism. Nessel was one of the participants in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, and he supported Adolf Hitler in his 1933 rise to power. Nessel sat in the Reichstag for many terms under Hitler, including several terms during World War II, when his hometown was destroyed by bombing. After the war, he returned home and rebuilt his house, dying there in 1958.